A Live Action Captain Boomerang Will Be a Thing
Someone somewhere has decided that a man whose claim to fame is throwing boomerangs will pose much more of a challenge to a man who shoots arrows instead of a man with super speed. In other words, Captain Boomerang will appear on Arrow in Season 3 instead of The Flash.
He’ll also be played by Nick Tarabay, of Spartacus, according to Entertainment Weekly.
At least one of them is Australian
Though according to the article, he’ll be part of the two show crossover coming up this fall, so maybe that’s something.
I watched Spartacus, and it was really good. Tarabay played the jackass, so I bet he’d make a good villain. He seems like he has the cocky smarm to play someone like Captain Boomerang. Also according to the article, the Cap’n will be a former ARGUS operative who’s possibly gone rogue. New Suicide Squad member, perhaps?
I only hope the boomerang effects are as good as the bow and arrow effects.
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6 of My Fictional Mary Sues
I make no bones about my life as a young fan fiction writer. I am actually quite proud of the work that Young Sean churned out at such a young age – even if I can rarely bring myself to go back and read the stories I wrote. You can check them out at FanFiction.net. Those stories laid the groundwork for the Sean you know today.
And one of the things I loved more than anything else was creating my own Mary Sue characters in popular fiction. Though back then, I had no idea what a ‘Mary Sue’ even was.
Nope, that’s Mary Jane
According to TVtropes.com, Mary Sue is the derogative term for an original fan fiction character inserted by the author into an already popular series, usually to serve as some kind of wish fulfillment. Mary Sues typically have dramatic backstories, awesome names, unique looks, and more often than not, upstage the main characters. For example, say you wrote a Harry Potter fan fic and inserted your own original Hufflepuff wizard, and the story was all about how your wizard fell in love with Draco Malfoy and turned him into a good guy with the power of love. It’s that sort of idealized character inserted into pre-existing stories.
I don’t think I was ever that bad, but I loved creating my own original characters for all my favorite cartoons and movies. Join me after the jump to take a look at just a few of them, and feel free to share some of your own in the comments! No judgement.
Also, as Google has revealed, I was not the only person in the world to come up with these exact same ideas. But I was young, and the Internet wasn’t a thing yet, so forgive me if some of these ideas aren’t 100% unique or original. They were to me at the time.
My Blog Doesn’t Feature Enough Cheerful Pop Music About Anthropomorphic Pony Girls
That changes today!
I hope all of you are as excited about the new movie My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks as I am! I mean, when you’ve already got a pretty solid cartoon about ponies, what better way to expand the brand then by introducing an alternate reality where all of the ponies have human versions? Even Derpy! Rainbow Rocks comes out on the 27th!
Also, in even funner pony news, my cousin named his son Dash (short for Dashell). As a proper geek, I knew this would mean he might like Dash Parr from The Incredibles. And that’s all well and good…but man, if I can somehow get that kid to love Rainbow Dash instead, my life will be in some ways complete.
The Hunger Games is Going Full on Revolution!
I have become a pretty big Hunger Games fan – the movies, I haven’t read the books yet. My favorite moment in the first film was when the hints of revolution started, so I’m very pleased to see this all come crashing down into war. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 arrives later this Fall. Why it has to be two parts, and we have to wait several months to get the proper finale, is beyond me. That’s just the way the world freakin’ works these days!
My Absolute Favorite Video on Youtube of All Time
I just thought it was high time I shared this part of my life with you fine people. There’s just so much purity in this moment. It’s my ‘plastic bag flowing in the wind’…if that reference isn’t too dated. And it makes for a nice start to this Monday morning.
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